In this video for viEUws – the EU Policy Broadcaster, leading environment journalist, Sonja van Renssen, met Corinne Lepage MEP (ALDE), Rapporteur on the Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) proposal in the European Parliament’s Environment Committee, to discuss the European Parliament vote on ILUC/biofuels in plenary session on Wednesday 11 September 2013. She laments the fact that MEPs rejected her request for a mandate to negotiate a first-reading deal with the Council of Ministers.
“When I hear reports saying it will lead to the loss of 100,000 or 200,000 jobs, it is pure and simple disinformation.”